VIDEO: These bus drivers are so desperate for passengers they FIGHT each other

VIDEO: These bus drivers are so desperate for passengers they FIGHT each other

YOU wait ages for a bus only for two arriving at once — but you don't expect the bus drivers to start fighting over you.

Published 8th July 2014

Commuters in Borat's homeland of Kazakhstan were perplexed when after waiting for an hour for a bus, two turned up at the same time – and the drivers started battling it out for who had the right to pick up passengers.

According to eyewitness Panov Vyacheslav, 54, who was there with his granddaughter Liuda, 9, bus drivers often form rivalries because their privately owned companies are intensely competitive over passengers.

He said: "They don't have a proper timetable because if they did the other bus would come along seconds earlier, and grab the passengers, so as a result you either have no buses or more buses then you need.

“Then they started shouting at each other, then shoving each other and before we knew it fists were flying and they were rolling around”

Panov Vyacheslav, witness

"There were quite a few of us waiting by the time not just one but two buses turned up, and the drivers got off at the same time and started telling to people to get on board and to ignore the other guy.

"Then they started shouting at each other, then shoving each other and before we knew it fists were flying and they were rolling around. I couldn't believe it and then I grabbed my phone and videoed it, and handed the video to the local paper.

"I wanted them to do a story on the fact that this can't go on. It wasn't particularly impressive for my granddaughter to have to see that either."

The fighting only ended when both the drivers Sasha Grabov, 42, and Anton Krokin, 37, started to tire.

They were then pulled apart by passengers who had been waiting at the stop on a road of Karaganda, the capital city of Karagandy Province in Kazakhstan.

Local media said that incidents like this are increasingly common now as competition for passengers heats up in the region.